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Originally Posted by T.G
I'd be curious to see how the kings of pseudo-science did their test. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that in a smoker with indirect heat the can will never boil, but if you are cooking direct heat in a grill, with the coals under the can and bird, coals run can run from 550 to 900 degrees surface temp, if that would be enough direct radiation over the short distance to the bottom of the can to get it to boil. If you put a can on the grill sans chicken under the same conditions, it will will boil within a few minutes.
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I prefer spatchcocking but like to do a beer can chicken once or twice a year. I've never had the liquid in the can boil but on a gas grill over indirect heat it was hot enough for there to be quite a bit of water vapor coming up from the can. And this was with a metal rack and drip pan that the can sat in, which would transfer quite a bit more heat to the contents of the can vs. using just the can.